Merchants [ Commerce ]
… to a merchant’s credit and financial dealings. People > Commerce Keywords Commerce Merchants Middling sort North America Politeness A merchant was ‘a trader or a dealer by wholesale’, especially ‘one who trafficks to remote … quite dramatically. Exports to the East Indies multiplied nearly sevenfold through the period, and exports into North America almost quadrupled. 9 5 . Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town, … domestic goods to sell on the West coast of Africa where they would purchase enslaved Africans to sell to traders in American plantations in order to procure commodities like sugar, rum and tobacco. In 1753, Cunliffe was involved in five …
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